Here’s Ask Bobby — a Rob Lathan sketch from the Osgood-Schlatter days. I had the pleasure of shooting and editing these. Greg Tuculescu and Violet Krumbein are the callers.
Spoiler Alert: If you’ve watched it already, you’re probably trying to put the pieces together. Ok, a few pieces of advice: watch what Bobby does with his hands right in the opening credits of the show, then compare that with the record sleeve that comes into view towards the end. Remember that FDR had a cat named “Ben.” If you watch the timer at the bottom, you’ll see that a significant confession always seems to arrive when the clock [...]
Three things I’ve learned the hard way. Tagged by Latham.
1. Don’t ever upload a major change to a financial company’s web site at the end of a working day, especially Friday. Your client is a dick, and will phone you all night. Do the change in the morning, or really late like midnight — so the calls don’t come in until you’ve gotten a good night’s sleep.
2. Always do something nice for Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t matter if the relationship is just starting, or if you know it’s all gonna crash and burn a week later. I once got a girl that I had been seeing a long time just a candy bar — knowing that I was doing [...]
This might be my favorite sketch of all time: Blood Donor. Rob wrote it and it opened our first few Game Face shows. It is my pleasure to be in this!
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The peanut butter is new for the video version.
YouTube - Link to Connery And Danza
Here’s Connery and Danza. Why did I do this? After Rob and I did Kerry On two years ago, one of the biggest comments I heard was “That guy’s John Kerry impression isn’t that great” which bothered me because I had DIRECTED Rob to not do the impression well. I prefer “bad” impressions.
So I decided to make a show where there was absolutely no question that the impressions were not supposed to be on point. I also cynically believed that people are SUCH slaves to pop culture references that just by [...]
Channel 102 is tonight - 7pm and 8:30pm at Pianos in the East Village. Directions. Tis free.
My friends Craig, Rory and Damian made a show called Beyond Fact which was submitted but not selected for screening. I think this is funny so watch it. I’m also in it and I’m hilarious.
Also, my show Connery and Danza got in and will be shown. It has ACTION!
I’m hoping to submit a show each month to Channel 102 even if all I have time for is “The Adventures [...]
Rob Lathan, Mitch Magee and myself did this video last weekend called “That Guy” — it’s a version of a piece we did for our old sketch group Game Face.
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It may look like a mere two-minute conversation on the surface, but I believe it showcases Rob’s genius for halting, not-quite-helpful descriptions. And we get a surprise appearance from Frank Cramp, one of the most beloved characters in all of American cinema.
You all know Harold Night is tonight. So that’s good. But if you’re in Williamsburg and don’t feel like leaving, I’ll be dusting off my stand-up at a show at the Archers of Ha show at Spike Hill bar and grill right off the Bedford stop tonight at 9:30pm. THEN, if you need even more Will Hines Antics, I’m in the Blender at UCBT at 11pm. Lotsa Hines.
I did a rough cut of a Channel 102 show I’m submitting this month. It makes just slightly more sense then my last show The Fightin’ George Orwells, but with similar “I only have two hours to shoot this” production values. It features [...]
This one is so strange, I bet even Sue Galloway will shake her head. It’s “The Fightin’ George Orwells” which I was going to submit to Channel 102, but it ended up being too nuts even for that admittedly lenient arena. I had just read Orwell’s Down and Out In Paris and London and then re-read 1984 and was obsessed with creating a weird distorted view of those worlds. Basically, I like to do adaptations as if they were being done by non-English speaking Eastern bloc directors who are told only the titles of what they are supposed [...]
My sideburns were reaching a Martin Van Buren level of thickness so I thinned them down to a five-o-clock shadow length. The next day I got three compliments on my “haircut.” Lesson: when you are balding, your sideburns comprise a significant portion of people’s perception of your hair.
Also, as Ben Rodgers and I were walking into UCB Theatre for School Night last night we passed Rob Lathan going the other way with a pair of stilts. I really love that my life is at a place where such things happen so I documented it with a picture. At School Night, DeCoster and I improvised a scene of two guys [...]
- Two years after the fact, there’s a fan site for The Fun Squad.
- When I get home from work, the first thing my cats seem to do is run to the litter box and squeeze out a severely rank tube of poop. Are they trying to drive me away, or is it just that they don’t feel safe doing that unless I’m stomping around?
- I just finished watching the six episodes of The Sarah Silverman Program and I think it’s genius.
- The coffee shop episode of Stella is good, too. I just saw that as well.
- Have a fine Friday.
- We still need extras for Sunday if anyone’s around.
- Joe Jackson’s second album I’m The Man is a great example [...]
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